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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
i think its more of a case of "finders keepers".
an item is left in the middle of a town square. you pick it up and say " ill share it with everyone" you begin letting one person after another hold it for awhile. then a police officer comes along and say "well, actually, it turns out that item belongs to this gent over here, give it back to him"
you feel a loss because you no longer have access to the item by you never had a legal right to keep it and pass it around in the first place. your claim to it doesnt supersede that of the owner.
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Not really. Its more like someone parking a vintage car in front of your house for six months, and then the county (or whichever body does such things) going through the proceedings to have the car declared abandoned. So you decide to claim the car, go through all the necessary paperwork, restore and drive the car for a few years. Then suddenly you find that the car's original owner wants it back and has gone to the trouble of buying off enough legislators to rewrite the law to have all abandoned cars returned to the people who abandoned them, and doing away with the concept of an abandoned car altogether. So you're forced to give him back the car he abandoned in the first place, after you'd done everything you could to get a clear title to it.